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Karen Wachs

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Mindful Relating: Exploring Mindfulness and Emotion Repertoires in Intimate Relationships

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy October 1, 2007 Karen Wachs, James V. Córdova

This study tested the theory that mindfulness contributes to greater intimate relationship satisfaction by fostering more relationally skillful emotion repertoires. A sample of married couples was administered measures of mindful awareness, emotion skills, and marital quality. We hypothesized that mindfulness would be associated with both marital quality and partners’ emotion skills and that...